Sstandard 9. Describe political, social, and economic conditions in Alabama during Reconstruction.
Examples: political—military rule, presence of Freedmen’s Bureau, Alabama’s readmittance to the Union, sharecropping;
social—carpetbaggers, scalawags, Ku Klux Klan (KKK);
economic—sharecropping, scarcity of goods and money
• Describing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• Identifying the role of African Americans in politics during Reconstruction in Alabama
Examples: Benjamin Sterling Turner, United States House of Representatives (1871-1873);
Jeremiah Haralson, Alabama State Legislature (1870- 1874) and United States House of Representatives (1875-1877);
James Rapier, United States House of Representatives (1873-1875)
• Describing policies of major political parties in Alabama
Sstandard 9. Describe political, social, and economic conditions in Alabama during Reconstruction.
Examples: political—military rule, presence of Freedmen’s Bureau, Alabama’s readmittance to the Union, sharecropping;social—carpetbaggers, scalawags, Ku Klux Klan (KKK);
economic—sharecropping, scarcity of goods and money
• Describing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• Identifying the role of African Americans in politics during Reconstruction in Alabama
Examples: Benjamin Sterling Turner, United States House of Representatives (1871-1873);
Jeremiah Haralson, Alabama State Legislature (1870- 1874) and United States House of Representatives (1875-1877);
James Rapier, United States House of Representatives (1873-1875)
• Describing policies of major political parties in Alabama